World Of Sport On Itv

[nicelander]

Can anyone remember World Of Sport on ITV with the likes of Dickie Davies?
Does anyone know what time of day it used to start on a Saturday?
Many thanks

[Buenchico]

^^^
See here, Tony:
http://itvwrestling.co.uk/overview.html

[tonyav]

Thanks Chris, I can remember watching it as kid on a Wednesday evening.

[tonyav]

My favorite as a kid was Les Kellett.

[grumpy01]

Yes he was good entertainment.

[Buenchico]

Watching ITV was frowned upon by my mother, Tony, because in her opinion only 'common' people watched ITV. (Being seen as 'common' was a totally appalling idea to my mother. So I could watch Blue Peter but not Magpie, etc). She only made two major exceptions, which were for Coronation Street (which I assumed, she saw as some sort of indictment of the way that 'common' people lived) and for professional wrestling on a Saturday afternoon.

The wrestler she 'loved to hate' (as did many others, since he was actually billed that way) was Mick McManus:

[Hopkirk]

Oh come on, no one actually watched the wrestling, did they?

[andy-hughes]

I did, every Saturday.

[albaqwerty]

I was enthralled with the wrestling. I was only a child tho.

My reasons for being enthralled by The Rock, however, are different :-))

[Ken4155]

And, as a kid, so did I. Les Kellet (or whoever the good guy was on that particular Saturday) would go a fall down, usually to a bit of skulduggery from his (bad guy) opponent - on the referee's blind side, of course. Then he would equalise in the next round, after sending his opponent out of the ring where he would be hand-bagged by a few grannies, before our hero made some audacious move that won him the contest. Nowadays I poke fun at my son-in-law who stays up until daft o'clock watching the wrestling from America.

[Hopkirk]

I switched over whenever the wrestling came in. It was so fake, and certainly not sport.

[Ken4155]

If I even thought of switching over while the wrestling was on, my mother would get me in a Full Nelson and wouldn't relinquish her hold until the football results were coming on:-)

[Mamyalynne]

My Dad was like that Ken, even if he had the newspaper over his eyes and we thought he was asleep.

[Bazile]

Ah wrestling on a Saturday

Big daddy , kendo navasaki ( probably spelt incorrectly ) giant haystacks

My dad used to watch the wrestling every Saturday and if he missed it , the reason was a very good one

I don't think he realised it was all acting

[tonyav]

Oh yes Chris, Mick McManus everybody loved to hate him.
Magpie was meh to me it was a cheap second rate version of Blue Peter.

[tonyav]

Was great fun practicing the Boston Crab and the Irish Whip on my brother.

[andy-hughes]

My favourite was Jackie "Mister TV" Pallo who used to rile up the grannies like nothing on earth.

Apart from wearing his hair at a challenging length compete with huge bow at the nape, he had a habit of waggling his head and smiling as he strutted about that nearly gave my mother apoplexy.